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Why McCain Doesn't Have the Numbers to Win
TalkLeft —
Sure, as I've been saying for a few months, the election is now about turnout. Even so, ABC News boils down the electoral map in such a way that it seems impossible John McCain can win: If McCain doesn't win Pennsylvania's 21 electoral votes, he would have to run the table and win all eight of the competitive states that were held by President Bush in 2004, including Virginia, Florida, Ohio, Colorado, Missouri, Indiana, North Carolina, and Nevada. ...If you take all four of these states that will be decided relatively early on Election Night next Tuesday -- Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, ...
The Note: McCain Makes Late Turn to Economy
Political Radar —
Previous | Main The Note: McCain Makes Late Turn to Economy October 28, 2008 8:46 AM ABC News' Rick Klein reports in Tuesday's Note: One week out, we know that one of the following equations will produce a number greater than 270 (and only one could possibly approach 370): Change + Bush + Virginia + Montana + Ground Game + (Air War x 4) + Axelrod - Schmidt - Neiman Marcus - Backbiting - Surprise +/- Biden + Tina Fey Experience + Liberals + (Bradley x 2) + (Surprise x 3) + Joe the Plumber + Pennsylvania + Schmidt - Axelrod - Bush +/- Palin +/- Bill Clinton We ...
And There Was Much Wailing
N/A —
An understatement? “Whenever people in the campaign are starting to worry more about their own reputations rather than whether they’re going to win in seven days, there is a significant problem.“
Sarah Palin, why have you foresaken us? “Sarah Palin may soon be free. Soon, she may not have the millstone of John McCain around her neck. And she can begin her race for president in 2012.”
Sarah Palin may soon be free? Free Sarah with every purchase of $150,000 of clothes!
We’re screwed. ...
The Palin-McCain Conflict
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
I think it's now fair to say it's a war. My view is that after they had made that crazy decision and realized after the fact what they had on their hands, the McCain peeps put their best face on it. They knew that the normal rules for a veep - a press conference, full media accessibility, airing of all the biographical details - would have required the candidate to quit before November. So they tried to shield her from actual democracy - and dangerous decision for the rest of us, but a rational decision for a campaign running a delusional liar who doesn't know the meaning of the word "caricature" as the ...
Rifts crack demoralizing McCain campaign
WTF Is It Now?!? —
I guess you've all heard this by now. McCain staffers are blaming "diva" Palin's lack of readiness while the Failinistas are blaming the RNC and poor managing by McRove handlers who say they "did the best with what they had" -- which was a total disaster. It gets even better: ...
The GOP Has A Future... Kind Of
DownWithTyranny! —
... to save right-wing extremists Thelma Drake and Virgil Goode from surging Glenn Nye and Tom Perriello campaigns, in Ohio, and in Florida, where Republican operative know McCain is going down but where they hope they can save at least one of the 3 crooked reactionary Republicans, the notorious Diaz-Balarts and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, from long overdue political extinction-- McCain's goose is cooked and the situation is getting worse by the day. The goal of McCain's demoralized campaign loyalists (so not treacherous Mormon backstabbers) now is to get out ...
Stephanopoulos: "There is no question that there is a rift between Sarah Palin's camp and that of John McCain." Tapper weighs in with more.
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
From Stephanopoulos at ABC: The McCain campaign is definitely demoralized right now. The blame game has begun. There is no question that there is a rift between Sarah Palin's camp and that of John McCain inside the Republican campaign, sources tell ABC News. And you are seeing people within the McCain campaign starting to look to the future. Not only Palin, but many of the McCain staffers, as well, are circulating their resumes and pointing the finger. Whenever people in the campaign are starting to worry more about their own reputations rather than whether they're going to win in seven days, there is a ...
